DIP75 - Release Process

[David Soria Parra via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 10 March 2015 at 22:41:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/6/15 8:54 PM, David Soria Parra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been working with Martin Nowak and Andrei in the last few 
>> weeks to
>> get ideas and write up a DIP on D's release process. With D 
>> maturing
>> more and more I believe it is time to formalize the release 
>> process and
>> do a time based release process in order to make release 
>> processes more
>> predictable, easier to maintain and synchronize with release 
>> cycles of
>> major distributions. Similar approaches have been adopted in 
>> other
>> communities and worked out well. The DIP is mostly based on 
>> lessons
>> learned from other communities. So please go ahead:
>>
>>   http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75
>>
>> Destroy it.
>>
>>  - David
>
> This looks good and is simple and easy to follow enough that I 
> am optimistic it can be actually observed. I do have a couple 
> of notes/caveats to make:
>
> 1. A process is effective only if properly executed. I like 
> DIP75, but a lot of my liking is contingent upon it being 
> implemented in letter and in spirit. If there's anything in 
> there that doesn't have on board Martin, David, and as many as 
> other interested community members as possible, please speak up 
> now. We need a high level of consensus to make this happen 
> repeatably.
>

Nothing to add to that, please give as much feedback as possible 
about it before we go this ptah.

> 2. I'm a bit worried about the release and packaging being 
> separated. It makes a lot of sense from the perspective of 
> distributing responsibility, modularity, separation of 
> concerns, simplifying processes, etc. It's just that if we 
> exclude packaging from the release process it is just left at 
> the discretion of less organized volunteers.

This is something we can automize and if we rely on volunteers we 
want to rely them having it automized. However I am hesitating to 
add packaging to the DIP as "ideally" the release manager don't 
have to do that. In the short-term, however Martin and I will 
provide packaging and I want to see how much we can automize it. 
If you insist, however I'll add the packaging bits do the DIP.

> 3. As I articulated in the vision document, we aim at making 
> vibe.d an integral part of the D distribution. That's more than 
> a packaging issue: (a) vibe.d must follow the same release 
> process, perhaps even same version numbering; (b) acceptance of 
> a release is contingent upon vibe.d working. I think we need to 
> secure Sönke approval of DIP75.

Agree. This is sensible. I hope we are making it easier for Sönke 
to sync with the DMD release which allows us to actually pull in 
up-to-date vibe for feature release.